INDIANAPOLIS — Greg Senat always dreamed of participating in March Madness growing up in Elmont. It just did not look quite like this.

Senat is at the NFL Scouting Combine trying to impress teams and convince them he is worth drafting next month. The 6-foot-6, 302-pounder went to Wagner to play basketball, which he did for four years there. But he also has played football for the past two years, and now the tackle is hoping to play in the NFL instead of the NBA.

He is viewed as a raw talent in this draft, someone who can develop into a good player with the right coaching. He had not played football since ninth grade when he approached the football coaches at Wagner before the 2016 season about joining the team. He initially thought he would play tight end, but instead learned how to play right tackle.

Senat said his basketball background helps him as a blocker.

“When you are blocking on the field, you’re basically just defensive sliding on people, staying in front of a defender,” he said. “I think playing basketball has helped me develop quick feet and that kind of conditioning and quick twitch that you need to play offensive line.”

NFL teams are intrigued by Senat’s potential, but also question his commitment to playing football full-time.

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“Some of them may have questions about why I started so late or if I still have any basketball player left in me,” he said. “But I’m fully committed to this. I love the sport. I’m happy to be here, and I think I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”

On Friday, Senat went through the drills. He put up the fourth-best time in the three-cone drill among linemen and was 13th in the broad jump.

Senat went to the East-West Shrine Game in January, where he got to face stiffer competition than he saw at Wagner. He projects as a right tackle in the NFL, but said he believes he could play either side.

“I think they just see me as a tackle, someone who they have to put a little time into to teach me the game but who can play anywhere,” Senat said. “I would love to be a left tackle in the NFL. That’s the pinnacle there, and I think I can definitely do that.”

As for basketball, the fifth-year senior now just watches his former Wagner teammates. The Seahawks are 23-8 after Saturday’s NEC Tournament victory against Robert Morris and will play LIU Brooklyn in the final Tuesday.

“Shout-out to those guys,” Senat said. “Keep working and make it to the NCAA Tournament.”

And if anyone at the combine wants to test Senat’s hoops skills in a game of one-on-one?